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To clarify, are you pulling the string off the edge of the fret board and it's getting stuck?
So to fill the gap, I took small splinters from a toothpick and stuck them under the raised part of the fret, with a bit of wood glue, then cut off the excess with a stanly knife. That effectively stopped the e string from getting trapped underneath.
If you get a straight edge, a bank card or something and place it over only 3 frets, the suspected high one being in the middle, does it rock back and fourth?
Depending on your action you might also notice some string/fret buzz when playing the fret before the suspected high one.
If not though It might not be a high fret, and just a small gap, some fret sprout or something at the edge.
Do the frets otherwise feel smooth when you grab the neck and run your hand up and down it?
The other question is, whats the reason your high E slips off the board?
If each E string isnt equidistant from the fretboard edges and thus the high e is much closer, and the guitars a bolt on, there may be a simple fix for that which, although wouldnt fix the string getting caught under the fret when it does come off, it might help prevent the string from slipping off in the first instance.
https://imgur.com/gallery/FjpIaC7
Using the check with the straight edge advised by @skunkwerx there’s a slight lift at the 7th fret. With regard to the question “Why does the high E slip off the edge of the fretboard?”, probably just movement from heavy pick attack. It’s a set neck, so unlikely to be the neck shifting. The string isn’t close to the edge at rest (see pic), so it’s not a neck alignment issue.
Probably also worth mentioning that the guitar is 12 years old, and this is a recent problem.
https://imgur.com/gallery/ILGIOi1